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JAMES K. ELY ROBERT COOK, 0F FRANKLIN. OHIO. Letters Patent No. 67,424, dated August 6, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE PERCUSSION-GAP PRIMER.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, JAMES K. ELY and ROBERT COOK, of Franklin, in the county of Warren, in the State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gun-Oappers; and we do hereby declare thatthe following is a'full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

In Figure I our improved gun-capper is represented with its sliding cover closed, and

In Figure II the cover is represented as partly removed from the receptacle for the caps;

And both figures represent a side view of our invention.

" In the accompanying drawings, the letter a denotes the cover, and b the box, which is just deep enough for a common gun-cap to stand betweenthe bottom of the box and the ,cover. The edges of the box I) converge from the points xx towards the lower end of the capper, and the coverais of similar form. Grooves are formed in the sides of the box 6, above the letters war, to receive the edges of the sliding cover a. A flat, curved spring, 0, of a width corresponding with the length of a common percussion-cap, is secured to the inner surface r of one of the edge or lateral portions of the box, near as, and this spring, c, extends down to the lower end of the box, which is left open for the delivery of cups. The spring has a short curve at its end for the purpose of retaining the caps, as represented at e e, in Fig. II. Theinclining edges of the cover a are provided with flanges, 0, for the purpose of guiding the gun-nipple to the V-shaped opening f at the lower end of the cover, as will be more fully explained. That portion of the lower end of the cover a over the spring 0 (at is wider than the opposite portion of cover a, (at 'n.) The object of this last-mentioned construction is to furnish asufiicient stop in frontof one edge of the cap to retain it in the receptacle, butwhich shall not obstruct the free entrance of the nipple into the cap when the capper is used. The springc will holdthe cap against the box opposite to its loca tion, which will cause the cap to stand with its edge covered by the narrow portionnof the cover :1. Although the-lower end, at W, of the capper-box is open the curved spring 0 and narrow projection 11. of the cover will prevent the caps (seen at r 1') from falling out of the capper. A projecting metal loop extends from the top or upper end of the capper, by which the capper may be suspended with the accoutrements of the hunter.

The cups 1' r are placed within the capper on their closed ends, and the cover a. is inserted in the grooves of the box 12, so as to completely cover the caps, except the one occupyingthe lower end of the box, whichis retained by springc and the portion 11. of the box ,as has been stated herein. The caps will freely gravitate towards the lower end of the capper, so as to always keep the space opposite to the spring 0 full. When the cap, which is exposed and next the end of the spring, is placed upon the nipple of a gun, the capper is drawn laterally or slightly upward, which action will cause the cap on thenipple to deflect spring a and be detached from the end of the capper, and while passing out and thespring c is deflected another cap slides by its gravitating forceiuto the position of the one just removed, and the spring will retract and hold the succeeding cap in position to receive the nipple of the gun. Thus, as often as the cap at the extreme end of the copper is removed, another cap fills its place until the receptacle is emptied.

' The flanges o o-serve to guide the nipple of the gun to the. opening in the cover at f, and consequently insures the'entrance of the nipple into the cap. It will be observed that it is necessary (when relying upon the l flanges 0 0 to effect the entrance of the nipple, as above stated,) to give the capper a drawing movement over the nipple. P Having fully described ourimprovement in gun-cappers, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of spring 0, orifice f, and lip 'n with the guides or flangeso o and box 6, in which the caps are fed forward to the delivery orifice by their gravity, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 18th day of February, 1867.

JAMES K. ELY, ROBERT COOK.

Witness es; H. P. K. PEoK, L. GEO. H Hangar. 

